Neuroscience Behind Online Hostility & Social Behaviour with Dr. Ben Rein

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Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

How does spending too much time online change your brain?

When social media first became mainstream, it was touted as a way to promote social connection and togetherness. Over the years, these sites have become known for prioritizing hostility and negativity over positive interactions. So why do people continue using social media? And how is that use impacting your brain?

I’m excited to welcome Dr. Ben Rein to the show today. Dr. Rein has completed groundbreaking research on the neurobiology of social behavior. His insights have gained him recognition from some of the top institutions around the world and he’s here to help shed some light on why it’s easier for people to behave negatively online.

When someone disagrees with you in person, the odds of them being confrontational are very low. But when you’re online, you miss vital social cues that can make it much easier to be mean—even to your friends. If you want to understand how social media has potentially changed your brain development and what you can do to make the digital world a more empathetic space, this episode is for you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Quick Brain, bite-size brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more.
0:06.0	I'm your coach, Jim Quick.
0:08.5	Free your mind.
0:10.5	Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.
0:15.5	I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.
0:18.2	I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.
0:20.6	I know Kung Fu.
0:23.3	Show me. Welcome back Quick Brains. I'm your host and your brain coach Jim Quick. Together, we are going to be
0:30.4	discussing the neurobiology of social interactions and understand the science behind why it's easy for people to behave negatively
0:40.0	online, how social media has changed our brain development, and what we can do to make the
0:47.0	digital world a more empathetic space. Our guest today is Dr. Ben Ryan. He is a neuroscientist whose groundbreaking research on the neurobiology of social behavior has earned him recognition from the NIH, the Society for Neuroscience, and many others.
1:08.0	Dr. Ben has published 19 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals,
1:14.7	uncovering information about neuroscience of empathy, the genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder,
1:23.0	and how connections between brain cells regulate social behaviors.
1:28.2	He's also the chief science officer of the Mind Science Foundation
1:33.1	and founder of the aspiring scientist coalition,
1:37.2	helping guide the next generation of scientists around the globe.
1:41.3	Welcome to the show, Dr. Ben.
1:42.8	Thank you so much for having me, Jim.
1:44.0	It's great to be here.
1:44.6	So we connected on social media. So it's very meta. One of the upsides of social media, you're,
1:53.9	you always come up rather early on my feed because I really love your content. So thank you. People don't realize how much work
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